Rawhead / Raw Addict / Blue Holocaust / Active Stenosis – Split CD (2020)

February 18, 2024

Rawhead bring that FAT production and huge downtuned riff energy to the world of gargling gore. A surprisingly natural drum sound (read: pingageddon mode disabled) rounds out this barrage of swampy gore madness.

I’d be doing Raw Addict (what a name!) a disservice if I compared them to early Dead Infection but damn that’s the vibe I get right out of the door with these guys. Crisp, tight blasts cut through a muddy sea of subterranean riffs and inhuman vokills. FFO: drowning in raw sewage.

Blue Holocaust bring that big budget b-movie sound (ha) to the pits of goregrind, with downtuned into oblivion guitars that are still strangely audible and vocals that come at you from all angles like a multitude of undead creatures tearing at your weak, fleshy corpse.

I firmly believe that Active Stenosis is one of the sickest goregrind bands to come about in modern day. Expect uncompromising heaviness and saturation of the aural listening field by the guitar, where the stabs of blastbeats penetrate through the noise like bullets tearing through skin. The band bring the a-game when it comes to pitchshifter vocal variety too. Great, great shit.